07-05-2025 11:34 via vanguardngr.com

Another US warplane falls off aircraft carrier into Red Sea

A multi-million-dollar US warplane failed to land on the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea on Tuesday, the US military said, the second jet lost from the ship in just over a week.The two-seat F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, worth around $67 million, went overboard after an unsuccessful attempt to slow it down as it landed, the US Central Command said.A defense official told AFP the hook of the aircraft failed to catch the arresting wire on the aircraft carrier.&l
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